About a year ago we noticed a restaurant on South Howard (SoHo) in Tampa called Daily Eats. The South Howard Avenue area, near Hyde Park, Tampa’s Bayfront and MacDill Air Force base has long been a popular area for independent restaurateurs’ to try out new ideas. Over time the good ideas have risen to the top and the area, which includes world famous Bern’s Steak House, The Lime and Taqueria is now home to some of the best Surprising Dining in Florida.

The name Daily Eats, kind of implies a little bit of low class grub and go, but that’s not what we found! 

Daily Eats is a diner-style restaurant, open early for a weekday breakfast and weekend brunch that includes an exhaustive selection of eggs. There’s Benedict, scrambled, poached, fried and three egg omelets just about any way you dream up. The eggs are served with salmon, scallions, steak, ham, feta, olives, bacon, sausage, turkey, guacamole, Swiss, provolone, mushrooms and even more that we are still trying to remember (and a few things we’re trying to forget).  

We heard some people at the table next to us arguing over getting a side of pancakes or waffles and so assuming they must be good, we ordered some of those on the side as well. The menu includes an Oreo Cookie pancakes or waffles, and my guess is that anyone under ten years old must adore Daily Eats for coming up with that brilliant idea! You can get your waffles and pancakes (whole wheat by the way) with bananas, strawberries, blueberries and candied pecans. I think there may have been more selections but that’s what this link to the breakfast menu is for.  

So how was the food? Great. We enjoyed everything our waitress brought out. The home fries served with the eggs were made from red potatoes and the poached egg on the Benedict was perfectly cooked; soft centered without being runny. The Hollandaise was flavorful without overpowering the ham, English muffin and egg. We also enjoyed the pancakes and waffles so much that on our next visit we plan to build our breakfast around that!  

The service was extremely fast and friendly, our food was out quicker than we expected and everything was clearly prepared from scratch. Quite an impressive Monday morning meal was served at Daily Eats. Daily Eats is also open for lunch and dinner and there is a take-out menu that those of you in Tampa will find very handy!  

For more information about Daily Eats visit http://www.dailyeatstampa.com/ to find out more.

Daily Eats

813.868.3335

901 South Howard Avenue

Tampa, FL 33606